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"Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it."

Valerie Simpson on Teacher

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  • "I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."

    Khalil Gibran on Teacher

  • "It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."

    Albert Einstein on Teacher

  • "If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself."

    Confucius on Teacher

  • "You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul."

    Swami Vivekananda on Teacher

  • "I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit."

    John Steinbeck on Teacher

More quotes by Valerie Simpson

  • "It's interesting when you've been a partner with someone for so long. So now to sing solo and starting all over again I am learning that I am more bodacious than I thought. I don't know where it's coming from but I am glad."

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